Trailer: JJ Abrams' "Alcatraz" TV Series

JJ Abrams, the creator of "Lost," is developing a new TV series called "Alcatraz," which is set to air on Fox next year and stars Sam Neill, Jorge Garcia, Sarah Jones, Parminder Nagra, Robert Forster, Santiago Cabrera and Jonny Coyne. And today, Fox has unveiled the trailer for the show. Check it out below.

Plot: When San Francisco Police Department Detective Rebecca Madsen (Jones) is assigned to a grisly homicide case, a fingerprint leads her to a shocking suspect: Jack Sylvane (Jeffrey Pierce), a former Alcatraz inmate who died decades ago. Given her family history – both her grandfather and surrogate uncle, Ray Archer (Forster), were guards at the prison – Madsen's interest is immediately piqued, and once the enigmatic, knows-everything-but-tells-nothing government agent Emerson Hause (Neill) tries to impede her investigation, she's doggedly committed. Madsen turns to Alcatraz expert and comic book enthusiast, Dr. Diego "Doc" Soto (Garcia), to piece together the inexplicable sequence of events. The twosome discovers that Sylvane is not only alive, but he's loose on the streets of San Francisco, leaving bodies in his wake. And strangely, he hasn't aged a day since he was in Alcatraz, when the prison was ruled by the iron-fisted Warden Edwin James (Coyne) and the merciless Associate Warden E.B. Tiller (Jason Butler Harner).

Madsen and Soto reluctantly team with Agent Hauser and his technician, Lucy Banerjee (Nagra), to stop Sylvane's vengeful killing spree. By delving into Alcatraz history, government cover-ups and Rebecca's own heritage, the team will ultimately discover that Sylvane is only a small part of a much larger, more sinister present-day threat. For while he may be the first, it quickly becomes clear that Sylvane won't be the last prisoner to reappear from Alcatraz.

Through the course of the investigation, Madsen and Soto will learn that Agent Hauser has known about the prison's secret history and has been awaiting the prisoners' return. Soto will witness his life's work – the history of Alcatraz – come alive. Madsen will be forced to keep her supportive San Francisco cop fiance, Jimmy Dickens (Cabrera), at arm's length from the highly classified assignment as she sees everything she thought she knew about her family's past shattered, all while fighting to keep the country safe from history's most dangerous criminals.

I love how people always complain when there is a show or movie that makes you think and then they Still complain when a show or movie is too simple-minded. Apparently people just don't know what they want anymore.

Lost worked because the previews and ads summed it up with one question: "Where are we?" It was a good hook, and the first season (mostly) stuck to that central question. I liked Lost, but it often fell off the rails in later seasons and because a confusing mess. This show looks like a confusing mess right out of the gate.

Mink's right, if you can't sum it up in 25 words or less, you'll lose people (Spielberg said that, I think).

And don't confuse 'complexity' with 'smart'; just because a show is complex doesn't mean it's intelligently written, or that it's gonna make you think. I like shows that make me think about the right things, I don't like wasting my time trying to figure out a show because the writers were slobs.